Trying to distract yourself from your problems and finding ways to manage stress levels has become an important part of our daily lives. We’re all told how to deal with stress and what things we should do to manage our time and busy schedules, but what most stress management guides don’t come straight out and say is that we’re stressed because we have too many stress-causing factors in our lives.

In the modern world, the quest for money and possessions has taken precedent over being happy. Our consumer culture and its endless ad campaigns have brainwashed us into believing that having money and nice things is happiness. This is obviously a ploy to push a population into buying status symbols to keep up with the Joneses, an imaginary super-cool family that exists in our collective consciousness.

This mindset has caused people to place image on a pedestal and replace substance with style. This ultra-consumer mindset we have taken on is causing many people to work high-stress jobs in hopes of making tons of money and buying tons of stuff that will make them seem cool. However, many of the highest wage earners are not happy and complain constantly about being broke despite have huge salaries and tons of ‘cool stuff.’

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